physical property

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physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" absorption factor, absorptivity - (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body dissolubility, solubleness - the property of being dissoluble; "he measure the dissolubility of sugar in water" drippiness - the physical property of being soft and drippy reflectivity, reflexion, reflection - the ability to reflect beams or rays bending, deflexion, deflection - the property of being bent or deflected temperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) enthalpy, heat content, total heat, H - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work" randomness, entropy, S - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity" perceptibility - the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses invisibility, invisibleness - the quality of not being perceivable by the eye brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, brightness, light - the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" inaudibility, inaudibleness - the quality of not being perceptible by the ear imperceptibility - the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses reluctivity - (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it sensitivity, sensitiveness - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth" magnetisation, magnetization - the physical property of being magnetic elasticity, snap - the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" malleability, plasticity - the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking inelasticity - the lack of elasticity unmalleability - a lack of malleability mass - the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field weight - the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity momentum - the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities" fugacity - the tendency of a gas to expand or escape length - the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place; "the length of the table was 5 feet"